People Who Don’t Like Looking At Art Like Reading About It Less

A recent study shows that providing contextual information alongside artworks makes people who already don’t care about art like it even less.Â

For the study, Purdue U psychologists threw together some art-ambivilant undergrads, gave them the gist of what art is and a varying degree of background info, then let ’em loose on some works to rate against their “internal prototype”/personal definition of art.Â

With the definition of Dadaism, suddenly those Duchamps just weren’t good enough. This either means people really hate to read or that a little borrowed lore can turn a frat boy into a bitchy art critic, presto chango. |Miller-McCune|

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